The Dead Good Poets online anthology of poetry by writers from and associated with
Aberdeen was published in 2006/2007 with funding from
Aberdeen City Council.

For more information about the literary scene in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland
please see North East Writers.

Gerard Rochford

Gerard Rochford is a widely published poet living in Aberdeen. He has had
poems in Lines Review, Poetry Scotland, Nomad, Cutting Teeth,
Pushing Out the Boat, The Eildon Tree, Northwords Now and many
other magazines, and is a featured poet on the American website Poets Against War.

He has a collection Three Way Street, with Douglas W. Gray and Eddie
Gibbons, and his latest collection is The Holy Family and Other Poems
(Koo Press, 2005), a meditation on belief and disbelief.

A founder member of Dead Good Poets, he convenes their monthly poetry readings
in Books and Beans café/bookshop, Aberdeeen.

Gerard Rochford's poem My Father's Hand has been selected by Janice
Galloway for her Best Poems of 2006 list for the Scottish Poetry
Library.

Gerard was the guest reader in The Black Stilt poetry venue, Victoria, Canada,
on Friday 13 October 2006.

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